Dwight Elementary School

As a cozy K-5 school in Fairfield, Connecticut, Dwight Elementary School instructs 228 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Fairfield School District. Enrollment runs roughly 40% below the state mean of about 378.

Dwight Elementary School is one of 16 schools operated by Fairfield School District, a district that teaches 8,790 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Dwight Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). The remainder is composed of 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 8% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, census data for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region shows median household income runs about $89,667, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Greater Bridgeport Planning Region's 91 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,880 students), Dwight Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Burr Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dwight Elementary School.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Dwight Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 27% since 2018, when it stood at 314 (now 228). White enrollment moved from 86% to 82% across the same window.

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